Author: Bo Persson
Date: 09:34:04 09/27/05
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On September 26, 2005 at 19:18:32, Christos Gitsis wrote: >On September 26, 2005 at 18:58:45, Alex Newman wrote: > >>Hi Joachim, >> >>That's all fine and well, but I still think you are making a mistake. >>People who use pirated software will NEVER buy Fruit. Why would they? They are >>used to the free stuff. They already got Shredder, Fritz,... for free. >>Fritz 9 which seems to be very strong is already available on all peer-to-peer >>networks. >>Most of those people will just wait a while until the copy-protection is broken >>by some hacker. Since Fruit's exe is very small, I expect that it's going to be >>extremly easy for many to brake it. Your only hope is that since Fruit is not >>well known outside the small CC comunity, they may never find out about it. >> >>In the meantime, you are making a big inconvenience for your good customers. In >>my oppinion, you will hurt sales rather then gain some. >> >>Alex > >Just because some people might break the copy protection, this does not mean >that the author should not make it difficult for them. But he is also making it difficult for his genuine customers, some of which will have problems installing ans using the program. If the protection is of any quality, there will also be a non-negligible cost for the protection software. That is also detracted from the potential profit. Bo Persson
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